As far as neonicotinoids are concerned they are used on crops like pumpkins, oranges and rapeseed. So unless border plants are oversprayed there is no way those materials are going to spread miles away to nonfood plants.

There is a lot of peer reviewed published data that shows the typical level of neonicotinoids that bees encounter on treated crops are far below levels proven to be harmful to honeybees.

Thats why there is such a controversy. A small and less educated group of beekeepers keep insisting that neonicotinoids are the source of their problems but there is no data even in new studies to back that claim up.

These same vocal beekeepers are mostly made up of huge industrial feedlot beekeepers who move their bees around a lot and also use a lot of miticides. Its a very hypocritical situation in my view. What’s even more bizarre is guess who makes a legal miticide that is proven to be poisonous to honey bees but beekeepers use it anyhow? Its called checkmite and contains the active ingredient coumaphos. BAYER!!!!

DOn’t beleive me? do a search on coumaphos and honey bees. Also the scientist author L. Burley as a keyword with coumaphos and honeybees to find the damning study that DOES show sublethal and lethal affects to honeybees from long term exposure.

So these beekeepers use a nasty organophosphate insecticide in their hives made by Bayer and then turn around and claim Bayer is killing their bees via neonicotinoid. What a joke!

Thats right folks!

I have not seen this study yet but Maryann Fraziers work at Penn State showed these materials were the 2 or 3 most common chemicals in beehives in overall quantity by weight.

Meanwhile beekeepers blame Bayer and anyone else for their ills. Kind of hypocritical eh?